School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- The bone fire night is always on the 23rd June. The eve of St. John's day all the boys of one village go to the bog with asses and creels for loads of turf. They put the turf in one big heap at a cross-roads. They put half of it in the shape of a fire. They leave a small hole in the middle of it. The small children look out for the bone a month before a bone-fire night.
When the fire is kindled all the old people and children go to it and say a rosary around(continues on next page)- Collector
- Margaret Ruane
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Wiliam Ruane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo